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A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi
Punk_Rock_Johnny points to an AP story on Pi-obsessed Professor Yasumasa Kanada. A snippet from the story: "Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said yesterday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places." Trillion!
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How about we see this bad boy!? I'd sure like to paste it into my "info.txt" file for future referance. It could come in handy sometime.
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We would have either found the end by now or discovered a pattern.
heh.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Because pi is there. And they still have found only the tiniest fraction of the total of decimals of pi...
Nyh!
The number Six!
You can write Pi as 1 (base Pi).
Here's how it works. You'll need several boxes of toothpicks. Get a large piece of chart paper, and draw parallel lines on it, from one side to the other. The lines should be separated by a distance just slightly larger than the length of a toothpick.
From a height of about one metre, drop a measured number of toothpicks onto the chart paper, so that they all fall randomly somewhere on the paper. Count how many toothpicks are touching a line (or would be, if they weren't resting on another toothpick).
Repeat this process as many times as you can. Lots of people can do it at once. All that's important is that, each time you drop some toothpicks, you write down how many you dropped, and how many of those ended up touching a line. When you're done, find a total for each quantity.
You now have all the numbers you need to calculate Pi:
Now here's the formula you need to calculate Pi:
Fill them in the formula, and work out your own value of Pi!Um, you have 1.24 trillion digits of pi. I think you can begin a statisticall analisys now.
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42 really is the answer to life, the universe, and everything!!!
Here's a program written in BrainF*ck to calculate pi: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jafowler/pi/pi. b
Here's the analysis of the program, and a link to what the Turing-inspired BrainF*ck programming language is about.
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He said other then base Pi.
You can write it as 0.5 (base 2Pi)
Taking the equation two divided by three I have found the 100000 trillionth digit ... it's "3"
... but what do I know ;)
Actually, if you divide two by three the 100000 trillionth digit would be "6"
Cartman may be round, but even he had to say...
No... more... pie...
-Zaphod
Kanada and a team of researchers
MPAA forces have today invaded Canada, when asked their reasons they replied:
"While we were looking through through the binary version of Pi, and one of our special forces noticed that hidden in from digit 12,166,133,883 onwards was a c source to DeCSS. Obviously these terrorists must be stopped!"
When pointing out that it was Kanada, the researcher, and not Canada the country, the Canadian government sued for trademark violation.
The case is not expected to hold up, as it is doubtful canada will be able to proove it has the computing power to calculate Pi beyond 4 decimal places - and no confusion can occur.
Damn, if I could only compute e^(i*pi) with a trillion digits precision...
that stated that somebody proved each number subset within pi appears as often as every other subset: '123' appears as often as '321' and '213' and '312' and such... it went on to state that this proves that every possible set appears somewhere, and as often as every other set...
this means that any electronic file could be represented as a start and stop position within pi if you knew the proper place to be... in other news MPAA/RIAA declare PI to be illegal...
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...... ah, this is gonna take a while :-/
is EXACTLY 3.
Sorry about that. I just wanted to get your attention. Glayvin!
I can't believe you report this and don't even include the value of Pi he calculated in the article!
I guess I'll have to wait for one of the page widening trolls to post it.
that would be a killer root pass
Now I finally have the measurements needed to make my cookies PERFECTLY round.
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Imagine this program screaming along calculating a few more trillion places when all of a sudden it stops. Pi is NOT infinite after all.
Imagine the hiliarity that would ensue (oops, wrong web site...)
according to a quick calculation, downloading pi to this many decimal places would cost $7,810.15 (cdn) in over-your-bandwidth charges if you are connected through bell sympatico DSL.
long live pi. down with bell.
So...
What we need right now is a distributed client to search for the ISO of a Linux 5.6 based distribution so that we can replace windows on the desktop. =-)
/.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
Just how is Pi calculated?
As a matter of fact, I happen to know that this system used a cunning mechanism containing a Canadian-built robotic arm, a No. 10 coffee can, a piece of string and a ruler. The machine measured the circumference and diameter of the can over and over again, and then sort of calculated the margin of error (correlated against 22/7) over and over again. And voila! It was discovered that pi is in fact 3.142857143...
Mind you, the article said they calculated pi to over a trillion places. They didn't say it was *accurate*.
Cheers,
Ethelred
Everyone wants to be Ethelred. Even I want to be Ethelred.
Proof that God is a male! He used his fingers and his, er... divine rod!
put a disclaimer on these posts moderators ;-)
I don't need a 20 page proof to tell me the moderators are irrational.
aparently you've never eaten Thanksgiving dinner at my place. Give it an hour or two, and you're bound to see it make a reappearance...
A google only has 100 zeros, thus 100 places
Not true. From http://www.google.com/press/facts.html:
Employees:
More than 500.
And they're not zeros, they're somebodies and they do an damn fine job at making a search engine.
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